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Stellar Collisions in Young Clusters: Formation of (Very) Massive Stars?
Marc Freitag
In young star clusters, the density can be high enough and the velocity dispersion low enough for stars to collide and merge with a significant probability. This has been suggested…
Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA
Pau Amaro-Seoane, Jonathan R. Gair, Marc Freitag +4
Black hole binaries with extreme () or intermediate () mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to…
Gravitational wave bursts from the Galactic massive black hole
Clovis Hopman, Marc Freitag, Shane L. Larson
The Galactic massive black hole (MBH), with a mass of Mbh=3.6\times10^6 Solar masses, is the closest known MBH, at a distance of only 8 kpc. The proximity of this MBH makes it poss…
Run-away formation of intermediate-mass black holes in dense star clusters
Marc Freitag, M. Atakan Gürkan, Frederic A. Rasio
We consider spherical stellar clusters with a broad mass function and a relaxation time short enough so that the segregation of massive stars toward the centre occurs before they h…
Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Galactic Nuclei
Marc Freitag, Willy Benz
We have developed a new numerical code to simulate the joint evolution of a massive black hole (MBH) and a surrounding stellar cluster at the center of a galaxy. The physics treate…